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The alteration of natural fire regimes is leading to profound ecological transformations, posing serious threats to biodiversity, and risking species extinction on a large scale. Wildfires are also altering essential ecological services on which humans depend, such as clean air and water supply, soil stability and fertility, carbon storage, ecosystem ecology, and more. It is estimated that 75% percent of terrestrial area on earth has experienced significant change to natural fire regime conditions. Learn more about what we know about the fire ecology of large-scale, destructive fires, and what more remains to be learned by joining the Global Wildfire Collective's inaugural webinar on March 20th! Registration: https://lnkd.in/gEHe2ZBi Alexandra Dunya Syphard Jon Keeley Stijn hantson Lluís Brotons Alejandro Miranda Ioki?e Rodríguez Robin Jones (she/her) Karl Peet CREAF Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR)2 Benemérito Cuerpo de Bomberos Voluntarios de Cali Pacific Power #ConsBio #SaveOurPlanet #Webinar #Ecology #ExtremeFires #Conservation #ConservationBiology #Biology #FireEcology #WildfireResilience #LosAngeles #LAFires #LosAngelesFires #Chile #ChileWildfires #BlackSummer #Bushfire #AustraliaFires

The 2019-20 Australian bushfire season, burned an estimated 24.3 million hectares, destroyed over 3,000 buildings (including 2,779 homes), killed at least 33 people.?In addition to the human impact, the fires were devastating to biodiversity in the region, with an estimated 143 million mammals, 2.46 billion reptiles, 180 million birds, and 51 million frogs killed or displaced. Learn more about the complex set of human, landscape and climactic conditions that led to this destructive fire by joining the Global Wildfire Collective webinar on March 20th! Hear from Global Wildfire Collective's charter member, Dr. Owen Price, Associate Professor and Director in Bushfire Risk Management, at University of Wollongong, Australia, whose work has been instrumental in understanding the causes and impacts of the Black Summer fires. Registration: https://lnkd.in/gEHe2ZBi Alexandra Dunya Syphard Jon Keeley Stijn hantson Lluís Brotons Alejandro Miranda Ioki?e Rodríguez Robin Jones (she/her) Karl Peet CREAF Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR)2 Benemérito Cuerpo de Bomberos Voluntarios de Cali Pacific Power #ConsBio #SaveOurPlanet #BlackSummer #Bushfire #AustraliaFires #Webinar #Ecology #ExtremeFires #Conservation #ConservationBiology #Biology #FireEcology #WildfireResilience Image Source | https://lnkd.in/g4RgeBDN

On January 7, 2025, what would become one of California's most destructive fires in history started just outside the Pacific Palisades neighborhood.?A perfect storm of the ignition site's proximity to housing developments, high winds and drought conditions led to 29 deaths, 16,000 structures burned and estimated economic losses of up to $275B.?Humans and wildlife across the region were exposed to high levels of VOCs in smoke and water sources were contaminated.? Learn more about the complex set of human, landscape and climactic conditions that led to this destructive fire by joining the Global Wildfire Collective webinar on March 20th! You'll get to hear from our charter members, Dr. Jon Keeley and Dr. Alexandra Dunya Syphard who study the wildland urban interface in Mediterranean climates such as Los Angeles. Registration: https://lnkd.in/gEHe2ZBi Stijn hantson Lluís Brotons Alejandro Miranda Ioki?e Rodríguez Robin Jones (she/her) Karl Peet CREAF Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR)2 Benemérito Cuerpo de Bomberos Voluntarios de Cali Pacific Power #ConsBio #SaveOurPlanet #LosAngeles #LAFires #LosAngelesFires #Webinar #Ecology #ExtremeFires #Conservation #ConservationBiology #Biology #FireEcology #WildfireResilience

In early February 2024, Chile’s Valparaíso region experienced its deadliest #wildfire in history, burning 160,000 acres, damaging or destroying more than 14,000 buildings and killing at least 112 people. Learn more about the complex set of human, landscape and climactic conditions that led to this destructive #fire by joining the #GlobalWildfireCollective #webinar on March 20th! You'll get to hear from our charter members, Dr. Mauro González and Dr. Alejandro Miranda. Registration: https://lnkd.in/gEHe2ZBi Alexandra Dunya Syphard Jon Keeley Stijn hantson Lluís Brotons Alejandro Miranda Ioki?e Rodríguez Robin Jones (she/her) Karl Peet CREAF Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR)2 Benemérito Cuerpo de Bomberos Voluntarios de Cali Pacific Power #ConsBio #SaveOurPlanet #Chile #ChileWildfires #Webinar #Ecology #ExtremeFires #Conservation #ConservationBiology #Biology #FireEcology #WildfireResilience

This month's CBI newsletter is full of great information for anyone and everyone, especially those affected by recent governmental policies and wildfire. Read all about it in our our March 2025 newsletter: https://lnkd.in/gmTFE3vw #ConsBio #SaveOurPlanet #Newsletter #Conservation #ConservationBiology #ConservationEfforts #Wildfire #Associate #NationalParkService #Webinar #GlobalWildfireCollective

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We invite you to join the Global Wildfire Collective’s inaugural webinar in its wildfire science & ecology series: When: March 20, 2025, 2:00pm-3:30pm Pacific Time (21:00-22:30 GMT) Title: Ecological & Human Causes and Impacts of Three Extreme Wildfire Events (Australia, Chile, Los Angeles) Register: https://lnkd.in/gd8uBjaf CBI’s Dr. Alexandra Dunya Syphard will moderate a discussion between international scientists that have studied the ecological and human causes and impacts of these three extreme wildfire events as well as the opportunities and challenges in recovery from these extreme events: Australia: Black Summer bushfires (2019-2020) Dr. Owen Price, University of Wollongong, Australia Chile: Valparaíso wildfires (2024) Dr. Mauro González, Universidad Austral de Chile United States: Los Angeles wildfires (2025) Dr. Jon Keeley, USGS / UCLA Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, US Ecology and post-fire recovery: Dr. Stijn hantson, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia Wildfire recovery and social vulnerability: Dr. Susan Cutter, University of South Carolina, US The Global Wildfire Collective facilitates scientific and strategic collaboration among research scientists, national policymakers, local communities and firefighting agencies to enable wildfire resilience and recovery for ecological and social systems. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gA78Dni8 #consbio #saveourplanet #wildfire #webinar #WildfireRecovery #WildfireResilience #conservationbiology Image Source: https://lnkd.in/g2UwCDvv

Help Preserve Environmental Data According to a New York Times analysis published on February 2, 2025, "more than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down ... as federal agencies rush to heed President Trump’s orders.”? Already, reports of missing data related to “climate” and “resilience” have started flooding in.? Conservation Biology Institute 's Data Basin platform is well suited to host this type of spatially explicit data and it is free to use.? If you have a background in GIS and would be willing to volunteer your time toward collecting, curating and uploading data to Data Basin to aid in the effort to preserve important climate and ecological data, please contact us at [email protected] and we will be in touch about ways you can contribute to the effort.

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To our Federal friends that have recently lost jobs in environmental and conservation science fields: Consider becoming an Associate at Conservation Biology Institute, especially if you have ongoing research or planning projects, and a track record of successful proposal development. As a CBI Associate, you can leverage the CBI brand and institutional infrastructure to obtain and manage grant-funded projects within an established and reputable non-profit organization. Learn more and apply at https://lnkd.in/gf5eM42E NRCS photo by Tracy Robillard https://lnkd.in/gUegQyWk #consbio #saveourplanet #environmentalwork #nonprofit #conservationscience #environmentalscience